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Speaker 1: An exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker. All right,

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Speaker 1: game six is upon us, and we're here right now

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Speaker 1: with the man that's been with the Dodgers longer than

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Speaker 1: anybody else this side of Clayton Kershaw, and that's the

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Speaker 1: one and only Key K Hernandez key K. Thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot for the time and appreciate it and great to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, key K.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the situation you guys are in,

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Speaker 1: you've been in this spot before, as recently as last

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Speaker 1: year in the NLDS. Do you guys draw upon that

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Speaker 1: feeling and the way you responded?

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Speaker 2: Ah, I mean, yeah, you you got to try to

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Speaker 2: find a positive way to think about things. And you

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Speaker 2: know what better way to think about that. We've been

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Speaker 2: here before, and we've gotten out of this hole before,

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Speaker 2: and I think under even tougher circumstances. You know, going

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Speaker 2: into Game four last year down two to one against

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Speaker 2: the Padres at their place, with no starting pitcher kind

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Speaker 2: of put us in a tough spot. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: knowing that we came from we came from behind from

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Speaker 2: that and we were able to, you know, to to

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Speaker 2: do it. And for me, you know a few of

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Speaker 2: those guys here, we're here in twenty twenty when we

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Speaker 2: came from behind three to one. There's some of us

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Speaker 2: that have been there, done that, So you know, you

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Speaker 2: just got to find a way to, you know, flesh

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Speaker 2: it out.

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Speaker 1: When you have a picture like Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound,

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Speaker 1: for you guys, is that where some of this confidence

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Speaker 1: comes from that you can force a game seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think with our story in rotation,

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Speaker 2: no matter who's on the mountd we feel really good

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Speaker 2: about it. Obviously, you know who was probably the guy

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Speaker 2: that throwing the ball the best and no better guy

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Speaker 2: to take the mount and again than him with a

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Speaker 2: season on the line, And obviously we know as an

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Speaker 2: offense that we need to we need to pick it

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Speaker 2: up and we need to do our jobs.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of your Playoffs series before. There's

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Speaker 1: been times where there's been a lot of overthinking trying

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Speaker 1: to play that chess game with the other pitcher the

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Speaker 1: other team. Do you feel like you're at that point

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Speaker 1: in this series where at some point you guys should

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Speaker 1: just got to find a way to compete in the

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Speaker 1: batter's box and and not worry about what they're trying

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Speaker 1: to do to you, but play to your strengths.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, I just we need to be better overall.

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Speaker 2: I mean just not one thing or the other. We

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Speaker 2: just need to be better. We need to fight. We

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Speaker 2: need to find that fight, and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 2: I'm confident that we're gonna We're gonna show up and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do that. Obviously, it's a it's a winner

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Speaker 2: go home. So uh, you just gotta leave it all

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Speaker 2: in the field and and compete to the best of

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Speaker 2: your abilities.

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Speaker 1: You guys said that you Savage did some different things

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Speaker 1: in game five than what you saw in game one.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect Kevin Gosman to do anything differently or

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Speaker 1: is it going back to what we talked about just

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Speaker 1: seeing what he has that night in a justin game.

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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, I think we're gonna do a better job

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Speaker 2: adjusting in game. It's just, uh, I don't necessarily think

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Speaker 2: that Gosman is gonna come out differently. He Uh, he

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Speaker 2: had really good stuff his last time out. He had

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Speaker 2: really good command, he was he threw a great game

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Speaker 2: Game two. Is just we were able to get to

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Speaker 2: him in the seventh inning. So hopefully we can get

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Speaker 2: to him before before the seventh this time through, you're

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Speaker 2: one of.

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Speaker 1: The more direct guys, so I'll ask you this direct question.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are speculating and talking about whether

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Speaker 1: or not that eighteen inning game took a lot out

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Speaker 1: of the team these last two games. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: like that's just something people are trying to grasp to

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Speaker 1: or is there something to it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously people were going to talk about they

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Speaker 2: got to you know, you got to find that when

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Speaker 2: things are not going well, they're going to speculate about

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Speaker 2: X and ys. And I think we go out, we

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Speaker 2: win Game four, nobody was going to be talking about

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Speaker 2: you know, that took a lot of out of us.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just even in Game three, in that

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Speaker 2: eighteen inning game, we were just not really doing much

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Speaker 2: as an offense, and the only difference was that their

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Speaker 2: offense wasn't doing anything as well. So the last couple

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Speaker 2: of days or their offense has been able to capitalize

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Speaker 2: on when they when they've had traffic, they've hit some

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Speaker 2: key homers and we haven't been able to do that.

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Speaker 2: I think for us, it's just a matter of you know,

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Speaker 2: going back to bases and just competing.

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Speaker 1: Does anything need to be said before the game? Where

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Speaker 1: was anything said on the plane ride here? Or does

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Speaker 1: nothing need to be said?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I think things that happen in locker rooms should

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Speaker 2: stay in the locker room. I don't think that's uh.

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Speaker 2: You know. I'll let you guys create narratives, but I

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Speaker 2: think the locker room is his or own private space

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Speaker 2: and what happens in there should probably stay in there.

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Speaker 1: All right, sounds good? I love it. Thanks K, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for the time.

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Speaker 2: Cool Thanks